Make change

“We invited BidCraft to support us with a major Higher Education bid in early 2024, the first time we have used them.  Since then, they have gone on to provide extensive training to the team and carried out a business wide assessment against the new BSI bid code of practice PAS 360.  This left us with a clear plan which has formed the basis of major investment in our people and processes.  Their work has been instrumental in helping us develop a blue print for future development that is opening up new growth prospects particularly amongst Public Sector customers.  What started off as a request for help has resulted in the beginnings of a major transformation for our business that has enhanced skills amongst our colleagues who now approach new bids with a renewed sense of confidence and optimism.  Thank you BidCraft.”

“As a rapidly growing company we recognised the need to scale our bidding capability to support the business’s growth plans. We engaged BidCraft to benchmark us against PAS 360 and provide a roadmap for how we’d need to change. In parallel, they stepped-up quickly to help with our G-Cloud 14 submission – providing coaching, public sector bidding advice, and independent reviewing. This proved to be an invaluable part of the diagnostics, as they rolled their sleeves up and got to see things first hand. Their report was highly insightful and has already made a difference to how we bid. We’ll be working with them again and consider them to be part of the team.”

“BidCraft supported us with the largest (by potential value) tender we had ever submitted – worth £3.5bn. We had to work against almost impossibly tight deadlines and weave in costs from suppliers on both sides of the Atlantic. The fact that the tender document consisting of 5,404 pages was submitted to The Ministry of Defence by the deadline and looked, read, and felt totally professional was almost entirely due to BidCraft’s diligence, organizational skills, and previous experience. BidCraft prove to be patient in adversity and never lose their sense of perspective and humour.”

“BidCraft became an integral part of our team, building awareness of the importance of capture and the processes to support it. Again and again, BidCraft works to explain and illustrate the concepts, overcome resistance, go back to foundations, work flexibly and sensitively with complex and challenging stakeholders, and help land an understanding of capture. BidCraft broke ground for us in the capture space. They helped create the foundation we needed to establish a dedicated in-house capture team that will serve our emerging markets and major clients.”

“After successfully navigating multiple procurement stages of a major blue-light bid, we entered the home straight in a strong position. Recognising the marginal differences between competitors in public procurement processes, I engaged Bidcraft to provide a pre-mortem exercise to challenge bid team group-think, and to support our internal quality evaluation through an independent ‘cold-eye’ review. From day one, BidCraft worked collaboratively to help us tailor our competitive strategy and understand how we can make marginal gains in quality. We subsequently went on to win the competition. I have since engaged Bidcraft on other strategic opportunities and consider them as one of my trusted partners.”

“Bidding large public sector deals is never easy, and when we took on two mega deals (one in Defence and one in Education) we knew we’d be facing strong competition and would need a critical friend to help our teams deliver consistent evaluator-friendly and high-scoring responses. We decided to engage BidCraft’s Reviewing and Scoring team for their proven hands-on experience and public sector evaluation expertise. The BidCraft team quickly slotted seamlessly into our proposal production teams and provided excellent levels of responsiveness, coaching and challenge that really helped our authors step up their game. I have no doubt their focus on scoring, the quality of their feedback and their guidance on how to improve content has significantly increased our win probability on these deals.”

“I don’t know what they do, but if I did, I would definitely work with them.”